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Species of Spaces — ARC2130.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Working from George Perec’s essay, this studio will explore strategies of describing the physical world, with an emphasis on the elements of architecture. The subjects of the work will include rooms, buildings, cities and maps, both real and imaginary. Beginning with a sheet of paper as our starting point, students will gradually work with increasingly larger scales, following
Visual Arts

Species of Spaces — ARC2130.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Working from George Perec's text, this studio will explore strategies of describing the physical world, with an emphasis on the elements of architecture.  The subjects of the work will include rooms, buildings, cities and maps, both real and imaginary. Beginning with a sheet of paper as our starting point, students will gradually work with increasingly larger scales,
Visual Arts

Spectra and Tensors: Topics in Linear Algebra — MAT4239.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This intermediate/advanced linear algebra class will focus mostly on two main topics: spectra, and tensors. The theory of matrix spectra, (eigenvalues and eigenvectors), is arguably one of the most useful ideas in all of mathematics. We will discuss some major applications, such as input-output models in economics, the Page Rank algorithm, JPEG compression, the Fast Fourier

Mathematics

Speculative Fiction — LIT2422.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For the last hundred years or so, speculative fiction has been a way for writers to imagine the future, but also, implicitly or explicitly, to think about the present. We’ll read genre, mainstream, and hard-to-classify works from the 1920s to the 2010s, with particular attention to the ways in which speculative fiction uses language to create a world, and the ways in which its
Literature

Speculative Fictions and Critical Fabulations — FV2206.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Speculative fiction is storytelling that starts with something real, some phenomenon observable in the present or recent past, and asks “What if?” - extrapolating into the future or alternate realities. Critical fabulation, as coined by Saidiya Hartman in the essay “Venus in Two Acts,” is a method for recovering unwritten histories. By

Black Studies Media Studies Film and Video

Speech Islands, Island Speech — LIN2113.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Are islands only geographic, or can they be social?  Can a community be an island, the way an island can be a community?  For almost two centuries, linguists have used the metaphor of “speech islands” to describe groups of people speaking one language who live surrounded by speakers of another.  These communities may be

Linguistics Sociolinguistics

Spiraling around, Movement Practice — DAN2416.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Martin Lanz
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will explore spiraling in and out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate from the floor and come back to it, creating movement sequences and phrases used mainly in postmodern dance

Dance

Sport in Latin America — SPA4496.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will analyze the symbolic and practical meaning of a range of sports and their commodification (both imported and exported), not least in the apparently perpetual definition and redefinition of national ideologies and regional identities, the continuation or disruption of collective memory, agency or lack thereof, race, class, and politics, thus contextualizing
Languages

Sports — FV4105.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This intermediate video production course will explore the relationship between moving image and athletics. Students will examine the work of pivotal figures from Leni Riefenstahl to O.J. Simpson in an effort to understand the role sports play in society, art and life. Studio projects will focus on formal issues from camera movement, stabilization, resolution, depth
Visual Arts

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students explore the role of the stage manager in the production process in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of the stage manager to others involved in the
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** Students explore the key role of the stage manager in the production process in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of the stage manager to others
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Kaiya Kirk
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager. This course will explore the stage manager's role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM's wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it.

Through readings,

Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager.  This course will explore the stage manager’s role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM’s wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it.  Through readings,
Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager. This course will explore the stage manager’s role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM’s wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it. Through readings, discussions

Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Dance Drama

Stand Up Comedy —

Spring 2018
Instructor: James Smith III
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Stand up comedy writing and performance. In this class, we will work towards writing a tight-five minute stand up set, like you might see on late night talk shows. Students will develop a point-of-view and stand-up persona as well as an understanding a writing jokes and delivering a punch-line.

Standard of Living — PEC2219.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Economics is concerned with improvements in people's living standards. But standard of living has different meanings for different people. This course explores the different ways to think about the living standards, and investigates long-term trends and socioeconomic differences in quality of life. This is an introductory course. No prior knowledge of economics is necessary to
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